INTROVERSE

Alice Amati is delighted to present 'INTROVERSE', the first UK solo exhibition by Italian Zurich-based artist Ilaria Vinci, opening to coincide with the London Gallery Weekend this June. Vinci’s multimedia practice explores the porous nature of reality by harnessing the narrative-building possibilities inherent in cultural motifs like billboards, food replicas, mythical creatures, and fandom tropes. For this exhibition, Vinci turns to ancient architectural forms of defense and recreation, such as towers and labyrinths, to investigate the 'mechanics of imagination' and how fantasies shape identity and society. Influenced by the tradition of 'fantastical' and 'impossible' architecture, including the surreal blueprints of...

Ilaria Vinci (b. 1991, Cisternino, Italy) lives and works in Zurich since 2018. She completed her BFA at Brera Academy, Milan and her MFA at ÉCAL, Lausanne in 2017. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include ‘Fantasy Students’, Berufsschule Bülach, CH (2023); ‘Phoenix Philosophy Café’, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH (2022-2023). Her work has been i...

Ilaria Vinci (b. 1991, Cisternino, Italy) lives and works in Zurich since 2018. She completed her BFA at Brera Academy, Milan and her MFA at ÉCAL, Lausanne in 2017. Selected solo and two-person exhibitions include ‘Fantasy Students’, Berufsschule Bülach, CH (2023); ‘Phoenix Philosophy Café’, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, CH (2022-2023). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zurich (2024), Kunsthalle Zurich, (2023), Museion, Bolzano (2023), Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2023); MACRO Museum, Rome (2022); Fondazione Sandretto, Turin (2021), among others.

In 2023 she was one of the recipients of the Swiss Art Award, Basel (CH) and in 2018 she won the Menabrea Art Prize, selected by Cura Magazine.